40. Summary Time (Emily’s Age) Narrativ Order (Section, Paragraph) Event 30 II. 26, 27 • When Emily was 30, Emily’s father died (26) • Emily refused to accept her father’s death. When the town people forced to bury her father, she broke down. (27) 30~32 III. 30 • Emily was sick for a long time. • In the summer after the Emily’s father, the town had a contract for paving the sidewalks. (30) Image 17: Emily and Father

42. Summary Time (Emily’s Age) Narrativ Order (Section, Paragraph) Event 32 III. 34 - 40 • Town people disagreed and gossiped. • ”She will persuade him yet”, because Homer Barron had remarked—he’s not a marrying man (IV. Paragraph 43). • Some town ladies interfered, and for the Baptist minister to called upon her. • The next Sunday, Emily and Homer again drove about the street.The following day, the minister’s wife wrote to Emily’s relations in Alabama. (IV. 44) Image 13: Homer Barron

43. Summary Time (Emily’s Age) Narrative Order (Section, Paragraph) Event 32 IV. 45 • Emily went to the jeweler’s and order a man’s toilet set in silver, with the letter H.B. on each piece. She also bought a complete outfit of men’s clothing, including a nightshirt. The town people believed that “They are married.” 32 IV. 46, 47 • The town people were surprised that Homer Barron had gone. (46) • ”Within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening”. (46) • "And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time." (47)

45. Summary Time (Emily’s Age) Narrative Order (Section, Paragraph) Event 52 II. 14 • Colonel Sartoris died—Emily was 52. 52~54 I. 5 • Emily was about 52~54. Emily stopped given china painting lesson to the town ladies—Since that time, nobody visited the Grierson house. 52~54 IV. 50 • The second generation became the backbone of the town.They stopped sending girls to Miss Emily’s painting class. • “When the town got free postal delivery Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.” Image 20: Grierson’s House 2

46. Summary Time (Emily’s Age) Narrativ Order (Section, Paragraph) Event 62 I. 4-14 • Emily was 62 (“a small, fat woman in black, . . . . She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.”) • The town aldermen asked Emily Grierson to pay taxes, but she refused. (I. 4-14) 74 IV. 48, 53 • Emily died at the age of 74. (48) • “She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldly with age and lack of sunlight.” (53) Image 10: Emily on Mirror

47. Summary Time (Emily’s Age) Narrative Order (Section, Paragraph) Event 74 I. 1-2 V. 55 • The town people went to Miss Emily Grierson’s funeral. (1-2) • Miss Emily was put “beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier. . . .” (55) • Two female cousins came to the funeral. (55) 74 V. 56-60 • After the funeral, the town people intruded into Emily’s bedroom, which no one had seen in forty years. • Emily’s room was furnished as for a bridal, with the curtain of rose color. And they found a man’s body lay in the bed, with a long strand of iron-gray hair.

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